The 'Kubo Troll' meme centers around Tite Kubo, the renowned creator of the hit manga series Bleach. Fans affectionately (and sometimes frustratedly) dubbed him a 'troll' due to his penchant for massive plot twists, off-screen resolutions, and characters like Sosuke Aizen who seem to have planned every single event in the series. The meme often uses a photo of Kubo looking confident or smug, paired with captions that suggest a secret, convoluted master plan. It serves as the go-to format for the anime community to express feelings of being outsmarted or to mock overly complex storytelling tropes where everything was 'according to plan' all along.